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The first of my long days of driving is complete! I made it all the way from Chicago to Keystone South Dakota! From the city I drove up into Wisconsin, and then started heading east - first driving through Minnesota and then finally into South Dakota. For the first part of the journey, there really wasn't much to look at. It was more or less farm …

Yesterday's trip took us through Wyoming. Wow, talk about wide open spaces. Unlike Arizona and Nevada however, these spaces were actually almost all private ranches dotted with hundreds of cattle. These folks are the real deal.We stopped at a small cafe for lunch and actually saw one cowboy come in with hat, boots (including real spurs) and ...

... in forming, preserving, and growing this great nation of ours. I wanted to stay and look, and pray, and be thankful. We heard that there is a night program in which the faces are illuminated and the program concludes with the playing of the Star Spangled Banner. We look forward to experiencing that display some other time. Good bye , for now, thank you men! Onward to North Dakota..... what will be our next stop? .........

It's funny, we all thought it would be much larger than it was. Not sure why but all 4 of us commented on this the moment we caught site of it (: It's a marvel of a combination of skills that were required to "sculpt" such a monument. Lots of dynamite blasting, drilling, modeling, measuring.... I must say though, it did invoke a ...

... about the history of the monument. Then it was off to the ice cream parlor because we were told we HAD to try "TJ vanilla" which is supposedly based on the recipe Thomas Jefferson developed way back when. As pictures will show they only serve one size cone- which appeared to be somewhere between 2 and 3 dips! Zoe and I opted for the mint chocolate because Yvonne got the TJ vanilla and she was kind enough to let us try it. By the way this all occurred at 10 ...